# Sensei MCP Future Roadmap - Executive Summary 🚀

**Analysis Date:** 2025-01-23
**Current Version:** v0.4.0 (Shipped to PyPI)
**Analyst:** Multi-Persona Roundtable

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## 📊 Current State (v0.4.0 - SHIPPED)

### What We Built:
- ✅ **Session Analytics** (`get_session_insights`) - Track persona usage, decision velocity, context distribution
- ✅ **Consultation Export** (`export_consultation`) - Share individual consultations as reports
- ✅ **Session Summary Export** (`export_session_summary`) - Generate ADRs and team documentation
- ✅ **34 new tests** (136 total), all passing
- ✅ **3 new MCP tools** (14 total)
- ✅ **Published to PyPI** - Users can upgrade with `uvx sensei-mcp`

### What We Deferred:
- ⚠️ Interactive Discovery (30% complete) - Deferred to v0.5.0
- ⚠️ CLI Demo Mode - Deferred to v0.5.0
- ⚠️ Context Hints - Deferred to v0.5.0

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## 🎯 Top Recommendations for v0.5.0+ (2-3 weeks)

### Theme: **"Workflow Integration & Team Collaboration"**

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## 🥇 TIER 1: Must-Have Features (v0.5.0)

### 1. Complete Interactive Persona Discovery ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
**Status:** 30% done in v0.4.0
**Effort:** 5-8 hours
**Priority:** CRITICAL (finish what we started)

**Features:**
- Enhanced `list_available_skills()` with detailed format
- CLI demo mode (`sensei-mcp --demo`)
- Context hints in `get_engineering_guidance()`

**Why:** Discoverability is the #1 adoption barrier. Users don't know which personas to use.

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### 2. CI/CD Integration Pack ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
**Status:** Not started
**Effort:** 12-15 hours
**Priority:** CRITICAL (automate Sensei into workflow)

**Features:**
- GitHub Actions templates (architecture review on PR, security review)
- Pre-commit hook integration
- GitLab CI / CircleCI / Jenkins examples
- Best practices guide

**Why:** Shifts Sensei from "manual tool" to "automated guardrail" in engineering workflow.

**Example:**
```yaml
# .github/workflows/sensei-review.yml
- name: Sensei Architecture Review
  run: uvx sensei-mcp get_engineering_guidance \
    --query "Review PR changes" \
    --mode orchestrated
```

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### 3. Session Merge & Team Sync ⭐⭐⭐⭐
**Status:** Not started
**Effort:** 15-20 hours
**Priority:** HIGH (team collaboration blocker)

**Features:**
- `merge_sessions()` - Combine multiple developer sessions
- Conflict resolution (latest, manual, all)
- Attribution tracking (who made which decision)
- `diff_sessions()` - Compare sessions before merge

**Why:** Teams need to consolidate individual learning into shared knowledge.

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### 4. GitHub PR Review Integration (MVP) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
**Status:** Not started
**Effort:** 8-10 hours
**Priority:** HIGH (automation + visibility)

**Features:**
- PR comment bot with persona insights
- Changed files context detection
- Automated architecture review on PRs

**Why:** Brings Sensei insights directly into code review workflow.

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## 🎭 New Persona: Database Architect

**Status:** Not started
**Effort:** 6-8 hours
**Priority:** HIGH (critical gap)

**Expertise:**
- Database selection (PostgreSQL vs MySQL vs MongoDB vs Cassandra)
- Schema design and normalization
- Query optimization and indexing
- Multi-tenant data modeling
- Zero-downtime migrations
- Sharding and partitioning

**Why:** Database decisions are **critical** and **irreversible**. Current coverage is weak.
- Data Engineer covers pipelines, not schema design
- Pragmatic Architect is too high-level for DB specifics

**Works Well With:** Pragmatic Architect, Data Engineer, SRE, FinOps

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## 📋 v0.5.0 Scope Summary

**Features (Priority Order):**
1. ✅ Complete Interactive Discovery (5-8h)
2. ✅ CI/CD Integration Pack (12-15h)
3. ✅ Session Merge & Team Sync (15-20h)
4. ✅ GitHub PR Review Integration (8-10h)
5. ✅ Database Architect Persona (6-8h)

**Total Effort:** 46-61 hours (~2-3 weeks)

**Timeline:**
- Week 1: Features #1 + #2
- Week 2: Features #3 + #4
- Week 3: Feature #5 + testing + docs

**Target Release:** 2-3 weeks after v0.4.0 user feedback

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## 🥈 TIER 2: Consider for v0.5.1 or v0.6.0

### Additional Personas (Based on User Feedback)
1. **Test Strategist** - Test pyramid, coverage strategy, test data management
2. **Accessibility Champion** - WCAG implementation, screen readers, ARIA (OR enhance Frontend/UX Specialist)

### Quick Wins (v0.5.1 Patches)
- Query Templates (security-review, architecture-decision, etc.)
- Persona Favorites (auto-include in consultations)
- Consultation History Search

### Integrations (v0.6.0)
- Slack Bot (`/sensei ask [query]`)
- JIRA/Linear Integration
- Confluence/Notion Export

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## 🥉 TIER 3: Advanced Capabilities (v0.6.0+)

### Custom Persona Creation
- YAML templates for custom personas
- Local persona directory (`~/.sensei/personas/`)
- Per-project personas
- **Wait for:** User demand signals

### Context Learning & Adaptation
- Learn from session history
- Auto-suggest personas based on patterns
- Repository-specific context extraction
- **Wait for:** Usage data from v0.4.0/v0.5.0 analytics

### Enterprise Features (v0.7.0+)
- RBAC and access control
- Audit trails and compliance exports
- Centralized policy management
- **Wait for:** Enterprise customers (100+ engineers)

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## 🚫 What NOT to Build

**Rejected Ideas:**
1. ❌ **Custom Persona Creation** (too complex, wait for demand)
2. ❌ **ML-Based Improvements** (premature without usage data)
3. ❌ **More Personas Beyond Database Architect** (22 is plenty)
4. ❌ **Visual Dashboard/UI** (MCP is API-first)
5. ❌ **Async MCP Tools** (current sync is fast enough)
6. ❌ **Slack/Discord Bot** (GitHub has higher ROI)
7. ❌ **Blockchain Decision Log** (overkill)

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## 📊 Gap Analysis Summary

**Current Coverage:** 22 personas provide **strong coverage** across all major domains.

**Identified Gaps:**
1. ✅ **Database Architecture** (HIGH) - Add in v0.5.0
2. ⚠️ **Test Strategy** (MEDIUM) - Consider for v0.5.1/v0.6.0
3. ⚠️ **Accessibility Implementation** (MEDIUM) - v0.6.0 or enhance existing
4. ❌ **Developer Tooling** (LOW) - Defer to v0.7.0+
5. ❌ **Algorithmic Efficiency** (LOW) - Defer to v0.8.0+

**Recommendation:** Quality over quantity. 23 excellent personas > 30 mediocre ones.

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## 🎯 Success Metrics for v0.5.0

### Adoption:
- ✅ 40% of users enable CI/CD integration
- ✅ 30% of teams use session merge
- ✅ 50% of users try demo mode
- ✅ GitHub PR review used in 20% of repos

### Engagement:
- ✅ Average consultations per session +25%
- ✅ Database Architect in top 10 most-used personas
- ✅ Session merge creates 100+ team sessions
- ✅ CI/CD-triggered consultations = 15% of total

### Developer Experience:
- ✅ Time-to-first-value: 10min → 5min (via demo)
- ✅ "How to use" GitHub issues -60%
- ✅ Community contributes CI/CD templates
- ✅ User-generated content appears

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## 🚀 Long-Term Vision (v1.0)

**"The Engineering Mentor Everyone Wishes They Had"**

- 25-30 personas covering all engineering disciplines
- Seamless IDE and Git workflow integration
- Rich team collaboration with shared learning
- Enterprise-grade governance and compliance
- Rich ecosystem of integrations (GitHub, Slack, JIRA, etc.)
- Context-aware learning from repository patterns
- Automated architecture reviews in CI/CD
- Proven ROI metrics (reduced rework, faster decisions)

**Market Position:** The definitive engineering decision-making platform for modern software teams.

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## 📅 Immediate Next Steps

### Before v0.5.0 Development:
1. ✅ Review v0.4.0 analytics (which personas are used?)
2. ✅ Gather user feedback on GitHub
3. ✅ Validate roadmap assumptions
4. ✅ Prototype GitHub Actions integration

### v0.5.0 Development:
1. **Week 1:** Complete Interactive Discovery + CI/CD examples
2. **Week 2:** Session Merge + GitHub integration
3. **Week 3:** Database Architect + testing + docs + ship

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## 📝 Key Takeaways

### What Makes v0.5.0 Special:
1. **Completes v0.4.0 Vision** - Finishes Interactive Discovery
2. **Workflow Integration** - CI/CD automation brings Sensei into daily flow
3. **Team Collaboration** - Session merge enables true team learning
4. **Critical Gap Filled** - Database Architect addresses #1 expertise gap
5. **No Breaking Changes** - Full backward compatibility

### Philosophy:
- ✅ Complete before expanding
- ✅ Workflow integration over features
- ✅ Quality over quantity
- ✅ User feedback drives roadmap
- ✅ Evolutionary, not revolutionary

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## 📚 Related Documents

- **V0.5.0_ROADMAP.md** - Detailed feature specifications
- **PERSONA_GAP_ANALYSIS.md** - Comprehensive persona coverage analysis
- **V0.4.0_IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md** - v0.4.0 completion summary
- **CHANGELOG.md** - Full release history

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**Status:** Ready for v0.4.0 user feedback → v0.5.0 development

**Recommended Action:** Monitor v0.4.0 usage for 1-2 weeks, then begin v0.5.0 development with features ranked by impact.

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Made with 🎭 by the Sensei Multi-Persona Team
